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No, but he's using the incident to promote his own agenda.

No, he primarily is reacting to the liberals' use of the incident to further their agenda.

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I'd say it's about half and half if you include the title (which he probably wrote himself and which lets us know pretty clearly where he's coming from).

If you condemn people for doing something, you don't get up on your high horse and do the same. That's pretty unseemly itself.

He says:

Civilized human beings morn the dead, pray for their souls, and for the loved ones of those left behind. That’s what decent people do.

By that yardstick, he's not a civilized human being.